Plan Commission – Page 26

Lori Castello at Hopkins home recovering from heart attack

November 11, 2019

Lori Castello in a familiar pose, explaining something to a planning commission meeting. Lori Castello had a heart attack Monday evening, Nov. 4, and underwent double bypass surgery. She will have a lengthy recovery period. A Meal Train campaign (somewhat like a Go Fund Me page) is being organized by...

No contamination found at residences near old dump site

November 7, 2019

Watson Township Supervisor Kevin Travis Thursday night announced state officials found no contamination in 12 residential water wells near the old dump site near the U.S.-131 Motor Sports Park. This good news followed the bad news two months ago that perfluorooctanoic acid, a perfluorinated carboxylic acid, or PFAs, has been...

Public forum on marijuana likely to be soon in Wayland

October 21, 2019

Nathan Ward Wayland City Manager Josh Eggleston told the City Council Monday evening he would like to have a public forum on permitting or forbidding establishments to sell recreational marijuana. The issue has surfaced in virtually every community after voters statewide nearly a year ago approved a ballot issue legalizing...

City Planning Commission recommends large storage shed approval

October 17, 2019

Steve and Kathy Waybrandt The Wayland City Planning Commission Thusrday evening recommended approval of a special use permit for Steve and Kathy Waybrandt, 501 Voyager Drive, to build a storage shed. The 5-0 vote means the request will be passed along to the City Council at its Monday, Oct. 21,...

Dorr Plan Commission wants public opinion on master plan

October 15, 2019

Nathan Mehmed Suppose they gave an important meeting, and nobody came? That’s the nightmare scenario the Dorr Township Planning Commission wants to avoid as it begins the seemingly boring, but important process of updating the local master plan. Commissioner Dan Beute noted that in 2007, the last time the master...

Leighton grapples with issues about drains, cement driveways

October 11, 2019

Though he constantly defended the integrity of both agencies, Leighton Township Supervisor Steve Deer Thursday night outlined recent issues associated with the Allegan County Road Commission and Drain Commission. The Road Commission has made good on its policy against concrete driveways in rights of way on West Shore Drive and...

Leighton Township voters to be asked for road millage in ’20

October 10, 2019

Leighton Township voters will be asked to approve a one-mill tax levy roads next year, either in the August primary or in the November general election. Township Clerk Mary Lou Nieuwenhuis told her colleagues Thursday evening, “We know we’ll have to ask for a millage sometime next year. We have...

Nickels-Otto text amendment request approved by council

October 7, 2019

The Wayland City Council Monday evening adopted an ordinance approving a text amendment for property purchased earlier those year by developers Josh Otto and Keith Nickels. The amendment will permit a mixed use for the odd-shaped site in the industrial park at 1121 133rd Ave. near Reno Drive. The Planning...

Terri Rios was right about Dorr Twp. master plan bidding

September 30, 2019

After three years of dissing Dorr Township Trustee Terri Rios, it’s time for yours truly to acknowledge something she has done that was indeed the right thing, against the tide of wrong-thinking people. Yet in the end, she was still inexplicably sporting and unpredictable in terms of her vote. Earlier...

Dorr Township Board approves request for asphalt plant

September 27, 2019

Dorr Township Treasurer Jim Martin points to 22nd Street, where reconstruction is nearly complete. The Dorr Township Board Thursday evening agreed with the recommendation earlier this month of the Planning Commission to approve a request for an ordinance text amendment to pave the way for construction of an asphalt plant....

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